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RESIDENT/AL USE. Any use permitted by this Cb~pter in a residential district. SCRAP. PROCESSOR. Anyone engaged exclusively in the purchase, collection or salvage of scrap metals (including but not limited to manufacturing by-products, obsolescent ~achinery and vehicles) for the specific purpose of processing said metals for the metals recovery industry (including but not limited to steel mills, foundaries, smelters and refineries, and having and using machinery and facilities designed for such processing and making regular shipments of such proeessed scrap materials in the normal course of business. SIGN. Any notice or advertisement, pictorial or otherwise, with an area of less than two hundred and seventy-five (275) square feet used as an outdoor display for the purpose of advertising the property or the establishment er enterprise upon which the display is embibited. SIGN, GROUND. A sign supported by uprights or braces placed in or upon the ground surface. SIGN, ROOF. A sign erected, constructed.- or maintained above the roof of any build/ng. SIGN, WALL. A sign painted on or affixed to the wall of a building and not projecting more than twelve (12) inches frc~a the face of the wall. STORY. That portion of a building wholly aboveground included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above; or that portion of a building ~ately under the roof having a floor area that is fifty (50) percent or more of the floor area of the story iranediately below and with a ceiling height of at least eight (8) feet. STRa~'I'. Any privately maintained right-of-way set aside for public travel fifty (50) feet or more in width and also any right-of-way which has been accepted for maintenance as a street by the City. TOURIST HOME. A principal building wherein frc~ one (1) to ten (10) rooms are rented as an incidental home occupation to provide overnight accomodations for transient guests. ~OUSE. A row of three (3) or more attached one-family dwellings, separated from one another by firewalls extending from the footing to the roof, and othezwise so planned that the unit houses may be sold to separate owners in contradistinction to apar~nt or housing develop- YARD. A space on the same plot with a principal buildir~, open, unoccupied and unobstructed by buildings from the ground to the sky, except where encroachments and accessory buildings are expressly per- mitted in Section 40-53 hereof.